Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free."
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death."
Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic."
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
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"Sanitation is more important than Independence."
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"Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends."
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"Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence."
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"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."
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"A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down."
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"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."
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"Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us."
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"Freedom and independence form my character."
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"To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence."
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"No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving."
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"They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery."
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"Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources."
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"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."
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"Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments"
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"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
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"By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me."
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"Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever."
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"[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity."
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"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
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